<p>Ok so I'm a very active member of speech and debate , and my record in S&D is pretty good. I know that rice has a debate team, and i know they give out scholarships for achievements. so do any of you know if they have speech and debate based scholarship?Kind of like a sports scholarship???</p>
<p>Highly doubt it, sorry. Rice does offer some academic merit scholarships that are pretty amazing, so you should aim for those (although honestly only like the top 1% of applicants receive them).</p>
<p>Financial</a> Aid at Rice University</p>
<p>Rice digs into its healthy endowment to provide a range of merit scholarships -- a lot more than 1% receive them, I'm sure -- but I can't find the numbers that show about how many. There are no debate-specific merit scholarships, but your strong debate leadership experience and ec's could perhaps point you in the right direction for a Trustee scholarship.</p>
<p>Rice offers both merit and financial-based aid, and it's extremely tough to get an academic scholarship (unless you are cream of the crop), but for financial-based aid they are very generous--if you demonstrate need you will receive it. </p>
<p>I think you're confusing my statement with 1% receiving aid in general (not true)--I simply meant for merit scholarships, not a lot of people get them, but for financial-based aid, Rice will 100% meet your demonstrated need.</p>
<p>I think merit scholarships are a lot more available than being expressed in this thread. I don't have the exact stats, but it's definitely more than 1%!</p>
<p>I think I read that 20% or so received scholarships.</p>
<p>2007-2008: Merit-Based Gifts Received by 176 (23.7%) of freshmen without need, average amount $15,912</p>
<p>Source: CollegeData</p>
<p>The only merit scholarship one is assured of is the National Merit Finalist scholarship. Basically if you're a NMF and get accepted, then you get the scholarship. There's not that many merit scholarships (only like 8 different awards), and many of them are exclusive to a certain type of applicant (people who did research in HS, peopl who applied to engineering division, people who bridged a cultural, racial gap, people who are foreigners, etc.)</p>
<p>Rice's NMF scholarship is actually a very small amount of money like $1000 to $2000 a year for four years. Their other merit scholarships, however, are very good and usually in the $15,000 to $20,000 per year range.</p>
<p>NMF is $1000/year ($500/semester). It won't do much to offset your costs. Maybe books. (Just clarifying Christian2's statement. I have nothing else useful to add, since my method of paying no tuition is difficult for others to do.)</p>
<p>(This has nothing to do with the original post...)
Tikimoof, do you know if the $1000 a year comes on top of any NM awards? I got $2500 from national merit for the actual award but nothing from Rice...weird?</p>
<p>I got the same, silentsailor. $2500 from NM, nothing from Rice (that is, nothing based on NMSQT).</p>
<p>Does anyone know approximately how many receive each of the big merit scholarships (trustee distinguished, etc.)? It's all very secretive, from the administration and among students. Except for Century Scholars, since people often talk about their research, and there seem to be a lot of them.</p>
<p>Ugh. K, thanks. I was hoping I could wrangle a few more bucks out of them...</p>
<p>I think there are 37 century this year. I know of quite a few trustee/distinguished/etc, and one of my good friends has a president's award (?). Aside from one senior I'm the only person I know of with an engineering scholarship. I've heard the figures 10 and 15 percent tossed around as number of students who get merit aid, but nothing specific. My guess is that the admsisions office changes the # year to year based upon gut reaction...and (thankfully) it's not like (most) people go around blabbing about all the cash Rice gave them.</p>
<p>Rice awards you a National Merit scholarship if nobody else volunteers to. So because NMF or somebody else signed up to give you the scholarship first, Rice didn't want/have to. At least, I'm pretty sure how that works based on the letters I got last year (I was just a finalist for a long time, and the letters said something about universities sometimes awarding something if nobody else wanted to).</p>
<p>The number of freshmen with merit scholarships also varies each year because the merit money is offered when students get their acceptance letters, and not all of those students end up at Rice.</p>